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Edith Sitwell

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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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Literary Critic
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
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The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love Gone is the heart of Man.
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It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
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The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell